Embodied Gesture - Digital poetry activates (or) kinetic links between body and text, for writer and reader.
The corporeal practice of writing (gesture in its making) returns through digital.
One site of language's embodiment is the hand, through the gesture of handwriting. (Is typing similar?)
Animation connects digital literature with the embodied hand.
The kinetic body is not signified (through an arbitrary system) but "indexed" more directly through the motion of letter.
Nolan wants to argue with critics who see cyborgian interaction as producing alienation. Paradoxically, she wants to argue that machines bring us back to the sensory and embodied origins of our thoughts and expressions. (How would Nolan's view compare to Hayles? Doesn't the distributed cognition of the computer do more than just "mediate" us as a phone might or a pen? )
Digital writing a space for the recuperation of the bodily -- or the expression of a desire for so doing..
Handwriting is already a site of otherness
For Nolan, the visual/concrete lineage obscures the imporant relation of visual/kinetic digital poetry to inscription practices that are prior to print typography.
Complex story about handwriting as a site of libinal expression and coercion/restraint/submission.
Instead, digital poetry should be seen relatoni to visual art of "gestural abstraction." i.e. painting that is itself interest in the ductus of the expressive hand.
The corporeal practice of writing (gesture in its making) returns through digital.
One site of language's embodiment is the hand, through the gesture of handwriting. (Is typing similar?)
Animation connects digital literature with the embodied hand.
The kinetic body is not signified (through an arbitrary system) but "indexed" more directly through the motion of letter.
Nolan wants to argue with critics who see cyborgian interaction as producing alienation. Paradoxically, she wants to argue that machines bring us back to the sensory and embodied origins of our thoughts and expressions. (How would Nolan's view compare to Hayles? Doesn't the distributed cognition of the computer do more than just "mediate" us as a phone might or a pen? )
Digital writing a space for the recuperation of the bodily -- or the expression of a desire for so doing..
Handwriting is already a site of otherness
For Nolan, the visual/concrete lineage obscures the imporant relation of visual/kinetic digital poetry to inscription practices that are prior to print typography.
Complex story about handwriting as a site of libinal expression and coercion/restraint/submission.
Instead, digital poetry should be seen relatoni to visual art of "gestural abstraction." i.e. painting that is itself interest in the ductus of the expressive hand.